As you guys all know Nigeria, the defending champions of the African Nations Cup, have failed to qualify for the 2015 edition of the continental tournament. This came after they drew with South Africa 2-2, last night, and Congo beat Sudan 1-0 to snatch up the 2nd spot.
As we all know, Nigeria is a country of football, and you can guess some of the reactions we saw between last night and today. Here are some of them. The Good, The Bad, The Hilarious and The Depressing
First Wyclef and his shameless plug too
Shocker I am stunned unbelievable the #NGA #SuperEagles are out of #CFA finals in the hand of #RSA #AfricaUnited #Clefication #DivineSorrow
— Wyclef Jean (@wyclef) November 19, 2014
NFF President Amaju Pinnick goes biblical…quotes Romans 8 vs 28,says failure to make 2015 AFCON could be blessing in disguise.
— Toyin Ibitoye (@ToyinIbitoye) November 20, 2014
From Super Eagles to Super Chicken. Pls what kind of progression is that???
— Balogun Samson O (@Baloboy) November 20, 2014
The Super Eagles 1980/1994 era thrived on WING PLAY.This set have no pattern, cant score from set pieces and cant string passes together.
— kayode tijani (@kayodetijani200) November 20, 2014
Super Eagles players, aside few, completely took things for granted.They see themselves as mega stars who just need to turn up.Complacency.
— kayode tijani (@kayodetijani200) November 20, 2014
So #Nigeria is out of AFCON 2015,now we can watch teams better prepared play football
— Chuks Obichie (@obichiechuks) November 20, 2014
I think the Nigeria should have defended the tittle not have to qualify. Is it too late to go court? #JustAsking lol.
— Ebutecastle (@ebutecastle) November 19, 2014
See, God is tryna tell us something. That is why we didn't qualify for AFCoN.
*Face your elections*…. That's the message.
— L7 (@AfroVII) November 19, 2014
Lol. Nigeria. Can't play football but can throw bomb.
— K•I•N•G•™ (@aWoZy) November 19, 2014
How can a sport journo wear this on air? "@Bar_Baric: TAN already used their Badluck to tarnish Super Eagles in thi pic.twitter.com/URCA0cgGeb"
— The Godfather (@Ayourb) November 19, 2014
APC will issue statement blaming GEJ for Super Eagles failure.
— Amara Nwankpa (@bubusn) November 19, 2014
So we won't be in AFCON 2015? I hope CAF has a new trophy, because we're not returning the one we won in 2013.
— Chidi (@Chydee) November 19, 2014
GEJ'S Thugs Against Nigerians TAN hijacked our countries National Team #SuperEagles & infected them with GRIDLOCK pic.twitter.com/ZMaVZ4Jxi7
— Kayode Ogundamisi (@ogundamisi) November 19, 2014
There's Nothing super about these Eagles.
— Dr. Akara PhD (@ebukaakara) November 19, 2014
Fear not, Nigerians! #SuperEagles can still beat South Africa. See the quality we have on the bench. pic.twitter.com/sPKudx9UxT
— myNotJustOk | NJOApp (@OvieO) November 19, 2014
As for us here. This is how we felt after we failed to qualify